Renaissance from Brunelleschi to michelangelo and palladio.

The era known to us as the Renaissance began approximately around the beginning of the fifteenth century, in Florence. The philosophy behind the whole movement is one of "rebirth" or the re-establishing of ancient classical culture.

Following the collapse of the Roman civilization much of Europe fell into decline, losing a great deal of information concerning that period. Therefore knowledge concerning the architecture of that age could only be acquired via the classical ruins that litter the Italian landscape; and through the writings of the Roman architect Vitruvius. In this period of time they weren't only learning from Romans, they also had their own invention. We can say that they learn from Romans ,followed Gothic and came up with their own method.

Thus one of the greatest (and most fundamental) achievements of the renaissance is the rediscovery of the basic elements of classical architectural design, especially those concerning construction. The results of this achievement can be seen in the construction of buildings such as Florence Duomo.< Begun in 1294, the Florentine people almost exceeded the limit of their abilities in their enthusiasm to build an impressively large Cathedral, and consequently could find no method to cover it. Which was completed by the guy who was being condemn as crazy person, Brunelleschi.

Although less well-known today than Leonardo's Canon of proportion and Michelangelo's David, Brunelleschi creation is a uniquely tangible expression of the Renaissance's celebration of the divine power of the individual. But Brunelleschi's genius didn't end with revolutionary design for the Florence Duomo. The engineering and construction of the dome, which was impossible in architecture history in the fifteenth-century. If we compare to technological at that time, it was equivalent of putting a man on the moon. And thanks to his insight into the lost classical wisdom of perspective and proportion not only facilitated a visual expression of the times' empowerment of the individual, but exerted an influence on all of the arts of the Renaissance that cannot be overstated.




The second person that people would recognized more than his hero is Michelangelo who was so famous for his widely skills on